US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
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With 67% of US firms using software to sanction performance vs 4% in Europe, algorithmic management is already structurally baked into American labor—regulation, not tech, is the main differentiator. If you're deploying monitoring or AI management tools, design separate compliance and comms strategies for US and EU before the AI Act closes some of that gap.
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